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Sunday evening services aren't bad per se. Some Catholic parishes have Sunday evening Masses which attract many people, especially teens, that may not have made it to Mass otherwise. Saturday evening they're already out on the town and Sunday morning they want to sleep in. Obviously these are not really good reasons to prefer Sunday p.m. Mass. However if you can initially get kids into church and give them solid preaching and give God reverent worship, they often later go on to develop a more mature faith. They'll start to see why worshiping God takes priority over sleeping in or going out. Of course this all assumes that the Sunday evening Mass or service is geared towards worshiping God - not trying to be hip or "organic" - whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.

Our parish has a Saturday Vigil Mass at 6 p.m. and a Sunday 5:30 p.m. Mass.

I have found it very useful for weekends where the kids have lots of activities. Of course there's always the 8 a.m. . . .

If I am away from home on the weekend, the resources at www.masstimes.org are very helpful. Of course, you never know quite what you're going to walk into . . . I was out of town for a dog show and wound up in a LifeTeen Mass . . . I do NOT recommend that for anybody who wants to preserve their hearing! (I did note that there was an ASL interpreter for the deaf at the service - couldn't help wondering if if was for folks who were already deaf, folks who anticipated becoming deaf, or folks who just couldn't hear because the electric guitars were cranked all the way up!)